Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture

Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine. <p>[John Tatham], Knavery in all Trades: or, The Coffee-House. A Comedy. As it was acted in the Christmas Holidays by several Apprentices With great Applause. With License (London, J. B. for W. Gilberton and H. Marsh, 1664), 38pp.; 4°. BL: 644.a.13. ESTCR3000.; Thomas Sydserf, Tarugo’s Wiles: or, the Coffee-House. A Comedy. As it was acted at his Highness’s The Duke of York’s Theatre (London, Henry Herringman, 1668), [8], 54pp.; 4° BL:644.f.44. ESTCR27882; Elkanah Settle, The New Athenian Comedy, containing the politicks, oeconomicks, tacticks, crypticks, apocalypticks,’s typ ticks, seep ticks, pneumaticks, theologicks, poeticks, mathematicks, sophisticks, pragmaticks, dogmaticks, &c. of that most learned society (London, printed for Campanella Restio, next door to the Apollo, near the Temple, 1693), [8], 28pp.; 4°. BL: 644.e.61. ESTCR9900; Charles Johnson, The generous husband: or, the coffee house politician. A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By Her Majesty’s servants. Written by Mr. Charles Johnson (London, printed for Bernard Lintott, and Egbert Sanger, [1711]), [8], 63 pp.; 4°. BL: 162.i.15. ESTCT57015; Exchange-Alley: or, the stock-jobber turn’d gentleman; with the humours of our modern projectors. A tragicomical farce. Humbly inscrib’d to the gentlemen daily attending at Jonathan’s coffee-house (London, T. Bickerton, 1720), 39pp.; 8° BL: 11775.d.l4. ESTCT96325; James Miller, The Coffee-House. A Dramatick Piece. As it is Perform’d at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty’s Servants (London, J. Watts, 1737), [12], 38pp.; 8°. BL: 80.c.18.(1). ESTCT15.; The Usurpers: or the Coffee-House Politicians. A farce (London, Jack Dyer, 1749), [4], 8, 17–70pp. BL: 161.f.71. ESTCT81092.</p>